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Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Newtown

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Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Newtown
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Freestanding single-bay three-stage rubble stone Gothic Revival tower, built 1838-40, on a square plan originally entrance tower to former Catholic church with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed flanking porch to right (south). Remainder of church demolished, 1975. Roofs not visible behind parapet walls. Coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including diagonal stepped corner buttresses having pinnacles and moulded stringcourse to third stage. Crow-stepped gable originally to nave with diagonal stepped corner buttresses having pinnacles. Cut-stone battlemented parapet walls (on stringcourse to tower) with cut-stone coping (having pinnacles to tower). Lancet-arch window openings. Cut-stone chamfered surrounds with hood mouldings over. Now boarded-up. Pointed-arch door opening. Cut-stone surrounds. Cut-stone doorcase to tower with chamfered reveals having hood moulding and gabled feature over. Now boarded-up. Set back from line of road perpendicular to road.

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